Late lectures prepared from Emerson’s manuscripts by his literary executor James Elliot Cabot, on demonology, aristocracy, character, education, the superlative and the sovereignty of ethics. Alongside them sit portraits of people Emerson knew, among them Dr. Ripley, Samuel Hoar, his aunt Mary Moody Emerson and Henry Thoreau, plus historic notes on literary life in New England.
The Thoreau sketch alone, Emerson’s tribute to his friend and neighbour, makes this volume worth owning. Download the free EPUB.